SENATE BILL 280
48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007
INTRODUCED BY
Joseph J. Carraro
AN ACT
MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES BY STATE AGENCIES FOR FISCAL YEARS 2007 AND 2008; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the following agencies for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. to the legislative council service, seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to plan, design, purchase and install equipment to webcast the governor's state of the state address, presentations by the congressional delegation and the chief justice of the supreme court in joint sessions and legislative deliberations;
2. to the administrative office of the courts:
(a) sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) for training, education and outreach activities of the commission on access to justice;
(b) eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) for personal services and employee benefits for one full-time mediation program manager and related expenses and to provide volunteer training for the Otero magistrate court; and
(c) forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000) for personal services and employee benefits for one full-time DWI enforcement clerk and related expenses in the division 2 Valencia magistrate court in Belen;
3. to the first judicial district court:
(a) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a court interpreter; and
(b) fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000) for personal services and employee benefits for one staff attorney;
4. to the third judicial district court, seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for personal services and employee benefits for two additional full-time-equivalent positions;
5. to the fourth judicial district court, one hundred sixty-seven thousand dollars ($167,000) to create a family dependency drug court;
6. to the sixth judicial district court, twenty-two thousand dollars ($22,000) to expand the drug court program;
7. to the seventh judicial district court, one hundred four thousand dollars ($104,000) to establish a drug court program;
8. to the eleventh judicial district court, one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for adult drug courts;
9. to the thirteenth judicial district court, sixty-two thousand dollars ($62,000) for personal services and employee benefits for one full-time clerk and related expenses in Valencia county;
10. to the third judicial district attorney, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for personal services and employee benefits for two additional full-time-equivalent positions;
11. to the fifth judicial district attorney, two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to establish and expand elementary and middle school drug abuse prevention education programs and curricula to prevent gang and drug activity in Loving, Carlsbad and Artesia; and
12. to the twelfth judicial district attorney:
(a) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to establish and expand elementary and middle school drug abuse prevention education programs and curricula to prevent gang and drug activity in Alamogordo;
(b) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to establish and expand elementary and middle school drug abuse prevention education programs and curricula to prevent gang and drug activity in Cloudcroft; and
(c) seventy-seven thousand dollars ($77,000) to establish and expand elementary and middle school drug abuse prevention education programs and curricula to prevent gang and drug activity in Tularosa.
Section 2. LOCAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the local government division of the department of finance and administration for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to provide training for members of the New Mexico mounted patrol;
2. thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) for youth conservation corps activities in the south Broadway area of Albuquerque;
3. thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for operational expenses of a business incubator in the south valley of Bernalillo county;
4. ninety thousand dollars ($90,000) for a general educational development certificate and workforce development and training program for young adults in Bernalillo county;
5. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a workforce development and training program for young adults in Bernalillo county;
6. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for an adult literacy program in Grants;
7. twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) for a program that helps disabled persons find appropriate employment in McKinley county;
8. sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) to develop a regional gleaning project and provide for acquisition, storage and distribution of nutritional food to the poor in McKinley county;
9. twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000) to operate and support an athletes and coach leadership training program in Santa Fe; and
10. fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) for community activities, including youth programs and alcohol programs, in Talpa in Taos county.
Section 3. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT PROJECT.--One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the economic development department for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 to contract with a statewide organization that promotes workplace mentor relationships between middle and junior high school students and business people in the community. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.
Section 4. CULTURAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the cultural affairs department for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to contract for the development of education programs in historic preservation and regionalism; and
2. for the national Hispanic cultural center:
(a) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for traveling exhibits from the permanent collection to mid-sized and small communities in the state;
(b) one hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars ($157,000) to provide symphony music programs and concerts and to support community outreach for those programs in Roswell; and
(c) thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for a symphony on-tour program for Lea county.
Section 5. STATE PARKS PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the energy, minerals and natural resources department for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for operations and maintenance at the Rio Grande nature center state park in Albuquerque; and
2. sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) for personal services and employee benefits for one full-time- equivalent position at Villanueva state park.
Section 6. INDIAN AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the Indian affairs department for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. one hundred ten thousand dollars ($110,000) for personal services and employee benefits for two full-time-equivalent positions and related expenses to provide case management services to victims of radiation exposure or their surviving families in New Mexico; and
2. one hundred twenty-seven thousand dollars ($127,000) to fund youth development programs, including the youth leadership project, at the Tohatchi chapter of the Navajo Nation.
Section 7. HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the human services department for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000) to provide state matching funds for eligible family formation programs authorized under the temporary assistance for needy families program;
2. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to expand access to programs and services for homeless persons statewide; and
3. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a computer systems analyst and a database administrator to operate and maintain the immunization system.
Section 8. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to contract for permanent supportive housing for women being released from jail or a correctional facility who have a dual diagnosis, co-occurring disorder of substance abuse addiction and a diagnosed mental health illness;
2. twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to contract with a statewide prostate cancer advocacy organization to promote education and convey awareness to men throughout the state so they can make informed decisions for detection and management of prostate cancer;
3. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to develop and implement assertive community treatment teams to provide comprehensive, community-based psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation and support to persons with mental illness in southern New Mexico;
4. fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) for behavioral health services in southern New Mexico;
5. thirty-two thousand dollars ($32,000) to implement the male involvement project, a male reproductive health project, in the south valley of Bernalillo county;
6. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for social and therapeutic services for profoundly disabled and medically fragile children in Bernalillo county;
7. one hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars ($157,000) for residential juvenile crisis services in Gallup;
8. sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for Mora county ambulance services;
9. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for emergency management services and ground ambulance services in San Juan county;
10. sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for the Pecos ambulance service in San Miguel county; and
11. ninety thousand dollars ($90,000) for the San Miguel medical center health professional center in San Miguel county.
Section 9. CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the children, youth and families department for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to support grandparents and kinship caregivers statewide;
2. forty thousand dollars ($40,000) to provide experiential education, including mentoring, team building, teacher training, ropes courses and outdoor programming, for at-risk youth in Bernalillo county; and
3. one hundred two thousand dollars ($102,000) to provide child care and health care services to homeless children, birth to age five, and their families in Bernalillo county.
Section 10. DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the department of military affairs for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) to provide the New Mexico national guard in Iraq and Afghanistan with equipment, including global positioning systems and visual technology;
2. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for training to civil air patrol members, including costs of aircraft and vehicle operation, purchase of equipment and instructional materials; and
3. thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for a drug demand reduction program through the civil air patrol cadet program for at-risk middle and high school students.
Section 11. PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PROJECT.--Fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 to support the Espanola military academy charter school in the Espanola public school district. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.
Section 12. HIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the higher education department for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) to the public service law loan repayment fund to implement the Public Service Law Loan Repayment Act; provided that this appropriation shall not revert at the end of a fiscal year and may be expended in any fiscal year;
2. eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) to contract with the Crownpoint institute of technology to plan and develop a curriculum to teach repair and maintenance of telecommunications infrastructure;
3. for central New Mexico community college, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the small business innovation research educational outreach program to educate and coach small business entrepreneurs to benefit from grants and contracts available through the federal government;
4. for Mesalands community college, fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) to expand the intercollegiate rodeo program; and
5. for New Mexico junior college, two hundred twenty-six thousand dollars ($226,000) to support and operate the western heritage museum and Lea county cowboy hall of fame.
Section 13. UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. eighty-nine thousand dollars ($89,000) to expand the graduate research program;
2. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to expand the manufacturing engineering program;
3. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to fund faculty positions in Native American studies;
4. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for African-American student services programs and operations;
5. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to expand the Chicano Hispano Mexicano studies program;
6. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the center for regional studies for undergraduate and graduate fellowships, scholarships and internships; to support faculty research and encourage faculty recruitment; to produce film documentaries and collaborations about New Mexico and the United States-Mexico southwest borderlands; and to increase library collections and archives;
7. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for professorships at the center for regional studies;
8. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to increase the medical school instruction and general purposes line-item;
9. one hundred seven thousand dollars ($107,000) to expand the nursing program;
10. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the donated dental services program at the health sciences center;
11. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to provide educational programs and resources for the child welfare community through the Corrine Wolfe children's law center at the school of law;
12. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for improvements at the school of law;
13. eighty-two thousand dollars ($82,000) for the indigenous peoples library;
14. eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to expand the New Mexico Historical Review journal;
15. two hundred eighty thousand dollars ($280,000) for expenses related to facility planning; and
16. three hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars ($357,000) to establish a community-based educational program for customized training in mining-related fields and career trades at the Taos branch.
Section 14. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of New Mexico state university for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the judging program in the college of agriculture and home economics' department of animal and range sciences;
2. for the New Mexico department of agriculture:
(a) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the natural resource revenue recovery task force;
(b) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the small farmers initiative;
(c) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the Santa Fe farmers' market;
(d) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to contract with a specialty food association to market products created from indigenous specialty crops;
(e) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to match pink bollworm control districts' expenditures pursuant to the Pink Bollworm Control Act;
(f) thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) for the east Torrance soil and water conservation district for educational and training programs; and
(g) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the Canadian river soil and water conservation district to administer the Canadian river riparian restoration project with the Cimarron watershed alliance; and
3. for the cooperative extension service:
(a) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the water management research and education program; and
(b) fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) for the viticulture program.
Section 15. NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of New Mexico highlands university for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the athletic program; and
2. fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the intercollegiate basketball program.
Section 16. WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY PROJECT.--Sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of western New Mexico university for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for instructional television. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.
Section 17. EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of eastern New Mexico university for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. one hundred forty-one thousand dollars ($141,000) to enhance the faculty development program;
2. two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for travel, operations, recruiting and facility upkeep for intercollegiate athletic programs;
3. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to implement a hospitality and tourism education initiative in public schools throughout the state;
4. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for KENW educational television station conversion to digital technology and to partially fund an engineer;
5. fifty-nine thousand dollars ($59,000) for the special services for disabled clients program at the Roswell branch; and
6. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to improve the emergency medical services and aviation maintenance programs at the Roswell branch.
Section 18. NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of the New Mexico institute of mining and technology for expenditure in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for the purposes specified, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:
1. twenty-eight thousand dollars ($28,000) to increase the athletics budget to augment the wellness program;
2. three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the bureau of geology and mineral resources to map underground water in the state;
3. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the Roswell energy laboratory; and
4. fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) for the energetic materials research and testing center.
Section 19. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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